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...Framingham score is a decades-old tool established by a landmark study that began in 1948 (and continues today), which identified seven major predictors of heart disease - older age, diabetes, smoking, high blood pressure, high total cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol and a BMI in the overweight or obese range. The Reynolds score is a more recent screen that uses the Framingham risk factors as a base and adds another, inflammation, which in recent studies has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease. (See the 50 best inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Screens Don't Help Predict Heart Disease | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...trade commissions to a flat fee of $7.95 from previous rates that ranged from $8 to $19.95 depending on trading volume and asset size. E*Trade, best known for its popular talking baby ads, joined the battle in early February when it trimmed equity-trading fees for low-volume investors to $9.99 from $12.99, although it still maintained a premium deal of $7.99 per trade for higher-volume customers. Scottrade stayed put, as it already offers flat $7 trading fees. (See the top 10 worst corporate name changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brokers Wage a Price War on Commissions | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

Lin’s five points broke his previous season low of six points, which Lin recorded twice this season in games against Army and Santa Clara...

Author: By Martin Kessler | Title: NOTEBOOK: Lin Makes Impact In Supporting Role | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...your underpants through your white getup. Perhaps it's no coincidence that their pairs finished at the bottom of the 20-team draw. When you watch a skating event closely, it's fun to pinpoint the differences between the best and worst competitors - besides the tendency of low-scoring athletes to skate with their asses. For the pairs at the back of the pack, their spinning is hardly synchronized. Here, the guy is spinning faster than the gal; there, the gal is out-twirling the guy. During the ol' death spirals, the lesser teams tend to dodge the risky part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Watching Figure Skating, Judge for Yourself | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

BILL GATES, criticizing Italy's low levels of foreign aid in 2009--which had fallen by half from the year before--and blaming Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is rumored to have undergone hair transplants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

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